Old Concord CemeteryakaGoodpasture Cemetery

Menard County, Illinois

Directions: Follow Rte. 97 North through Petersburg to the Lincoln
Trail Road, which is the third road past R&H Home Supply outside of Petersburg.
Turn right (east) on the Lincoln Trail Road and go about a half a
mile to a grassy lane between two fields. Follow the grassy lane back
to the cemetery - about a quarter of a mile. The cemetery has a flag
pole and is fenced and maintained very well. This cemetery has the marker showing
the original burial place for Ann Rutledge. Her remains were later removed to Oakland
Cemetery which is just outside of Petersburg. All of the stones in the cemetery appear
to be very old.

This list has been compiled from inscriptions made by Eileen Gochanour in 1970; inscriptions made
by William C. Grosboll in 1963; by George E. Rutledge in 1971 and furnished by James Toal. In addition,
information was taken from the Concord Cemetery Plat Book (in possession of Eileen Gochanour) and from
several other miscellaneous sources. The cemetery is being photographed and re-read by
Jeanie Lowe and Betty Albert in April and May 2002.

Note regarding Ann Rutledge: unknown newspaper

Ann Rutledge, sweetheart of Abraham Lincoln, died Aug. 25, 1835, and was buried in the Goodpasture grave yard (sometimes called Old Concord cemetery), shown above, near Petersburg. Her brother, David, and other relatives were buried beside her. Here she lay until 1890 when an undertaker, ambitious to sell lots in his new cemetary, disinterred the dust that remained of her, and moved it to Oakland cemetery, near Petersburg. Later a granite stone was erected over this second grave, and now people make pilgrimages there, to what purports to be her grave. Abraham Lincoln often visited the original grave.

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